Clinical Quality & Safety Senior Consultant
Reporting to the Director of Quality Management, Improvement & Safety, the Senior Consultant position is a provincial leadership role accountable for developing and operationalizing Primary Care Alberta’s (PCA’s) strategic quality and safety initiatives. The position achieves this by anticipating, reducing and learning from hazards, close calls and patient harm events associated with system-level failures. This role supports and promotes patient safety activities and improvements across PCA programs and services, ensuring alignment with the PCA’s Quality & Safety Plan. The role works with a high degree of independence and in collaboration with the Quality & Safety team and key internal and external partners to plan and implement programs and processes. Responsibilities include the promotion and support for integrating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives into day‑to‑day operations with a goal to embed quality and safety in the culture of PCA. The Senior Consultant will act as a liaison between programs/services/portfolios and the Quality & Safety program. The Senior Consultant is a member of the Quality & Safety Team and has accountabilities to contribute and support the work of that team. While each member of the team may hold specific expertise, together, the compliment of team members represent a broad spectrum of specialized knowledge, encompassing patient safety, clinical expertise, quality management, applied research, and other elements of a fulsome interdisciplinary approach to holistic patient safety across all PCA programs and services. The team will lead, integrate, and champion system‑wide quality and safety initiatives across PCA. The team’s expertise lies in identifying system‑based approaches to improving safety to mitigate patient harm. The Senior Consultant works within a matrixed environment across all partner groups.

Description:
Reporting to the Director of Quality Management, Improvement & Safety, the Senior Consultant position is a provincial leadership role accountable for developing and operationalizing Primary Care Alberta’s (PCA’s) strategic quality and safety initiatives. The position achieves this by anticipating, reducing and learning from hazards, close calls and patient harm events associated with system‑level failures. This role supports and promotes patient safety activities and improvements across PCA programs and services, ensuring alignment with the PCA’s Quality & Safety Plan.



The role works with a high degree of independence and in collaboration with the Quality & Safety team and key internal and external partners to plan and implement programs and processes. Responsibilities include the promotion and support for integrating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives into day‑to‑day operations with a goal to embed quality and safety in the culture of PCA. The Senior Consultant will act as a liaison between programs/services/portfolios and the Quality & Safety program. The Senior Consultant is a member of the Quality & Safety Team and has accountabilities to contribute and support the work of that team. While each member of the team may hold specific expertise, together, the compliment of team members represent a broad spectrum of specialized knowledge, encompassing patient safety, clinical expertise, quality management, applied research, and other elements of a fulsome interdisciplinary approach to holistic patient safety across all PCA programs and services. The team will lead, integrate, and champion system‑wide quality and safety initiatives across PCA. The team’s expertise lies in identifying system‑based approaches to improving safety to mitigate patient harm. The Senior Consultant works within a matrixed environment across all partner groups.

Classification: Senior Consultant

Union: Exempt

Unit and Program: Quality Management Improvement & Safety

Primary Location: Southport

Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta

Employee Class: Regular Full Time

FTE: 1.00

Posting End Date: 03-NOV-2026

Date Available: 04-JAN-2027

Length of Shift in weeks: 2

Shifts per cycle: 10

Shift Pattern: Days

Days Off: Saturday/Sunday

Minimum Hourly Salary: $38.73

Maximum Hourly Salary: $66.42

Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Classification: Senior Consultant

Union: Exempt

Unit and Program: Quality Management Improvement & Safety

Primary Location: Southport

Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta

Negotiable Location: Provincial

Employee Class: Regular Full Time

FTE: 1.00

Posting End Date: 03-NOV-2026

Date Available:



04-JAN-2027

Hours per Shift: 7.75

Length of Shift in weeks: 2

Shifts per cycle: 10

Shift Pattern: Days

Days Off: Saturday/Sunday

Minimum Hourly Salary: $38.73

Maximum Hourly Salary: $66.42

Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:
Expertise in health discipline with current licensureMinimum of 5 years of relevant experience with progressive responsibility in Patient Safety and/or Quality Assurance

Additional Required Qualifications:
In-depth knowledge of the theory and application of patient safety principles, reviews, processes, and toolsIn-depth knowledge and proven practical experience of Quality Improvement and Process Improvement principlesDemonstrated leadership experience, preferably in a health care or related environmentMust be adaptable to working within a virtual team and at times in person, including a matrixed environment requiring robust collaborationAbility to thrive in an agile environment with ambiguous topics including politically sensitive contextsAbility to develop and facilitate presentations to convey information and support transfer knowledgeEducation or demonstrated abilities in change management, quality improvement practices and methodologiesTeam leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in othersAbility to search for, appraise, and apply best evidenceProven ability to work collaboratively as a contributing team member while meeting tight deadlinesProven ability to work independently within a large, complex organization with a variety of staffing groupsDemonstrated skills in needs identification, gap analysis, critical thinking, decision‑making, and innovative problem solvingDemonstrated abilities in conflict resolution and management and well‑developed facilitation skills

Preferred Qualifications:
Masters degree in health administration, nursing, medicine, allied health, or public healthPreference will be given to those with five (5) years patient safety or investigation experience in a Safety or RiskManager roleDemonstrated pattern of professional and personal developmentExperience in strategic or operational planning in a healthcare organizationExcellent computer skills including expert knowledge of MS OfficeMust demonstrate the ability to learn various IT platforms

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📌 Clinical Quality & Safety Senior Consultant (Alberta)
🏢 Primary Care Alberta
📍 Alberta